IFC.com's Ron Mwangaguhunga calls it "one of the most brilliantly imaginative graphic novels in recent memory" and included it on his list of 10 graphic novels that must be made into a movie.

The Zen of Steve Jobs tells the story of a relationship and collaboration between Jobs and Kobun Chino Otogawa. Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the early 1970s. He was an innovator, lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. Kobun was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick. It wasn't long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not built to last.

The book, written by Forbes reporter Caleb Melby and drawn by JESS3, is an imagining of that friendship, told using stripped down dialogue and bold calligraphic panels. The story moves back and forward in time, from the 1970s to 2011, but centers on the period after Jobs' exile from Apple in 1985 when he took up intensive study with Kobun. Their time together was integral to the big leaps that Apple took later on with its product design and business strategy.